EXCL: Farage aide Dan Jukes went on an all-expenses-paid trip to Egypt with pollster JL Partners in December 2025, weeks before the firm released high-impact polls without disclosing that they were financed by Reform. w/@saschaosullivan

BREAKING: Dan Thomas, leader of Reform in Wales, quits. He says: "Over the weekend, I was reported to the police and was released without charge. I stress that I have done nothing wrong, but I do not want the coming headlines to be a distraction from the fantastic work our Senedd team is doing in holding this government to account."

BREAKING WELSH NEWS Reform MS Sarah Cooper-Lesadd has defected to Plaid Cymru. She has released an absolutely damning statement regarding Reform: “Today I have left Reform UK and joined Plaid Cymru and its Senedd group. “I grew up in the care system. I stood for the Senedd to be a voice for care-experienced people, who are still badly under-represented in our politics. I want to improve people’s lives, stand up for people who are overlooked and get things done. My approach is evidence-led and rooted in what works for our communities. “Reform has no interest in the work I came here to do. They are not serious about governing Wales. They are far more interested in division, opposition and headlines than in finding solutions. There is a real appetite in the group to want the government to fail, and no interest in what that failure would mean for the people we represent. “They oppose measures without any coherent explanation. I wanted to vote for the supplementary budget, which every party should have supported, and I argued against tabling the Nation of Sanctuary debate, and I was criticised for sitting it out. Having just spoken about my own childhood trauma, I could not in good conscience sit through it. “I cannot support Reform's attacks on people seeking sanctuary or other vulnerable groups. I particularly reject the way minorities have too often been used as political targets. I do not believe anyone should be scapegoated or dehumanised to win votes, and I will not be part of a politics that does that. “The party centrally has no interest in Wales. Their Senedd group is a staging post in the effort to get Nigel Farage into Downing Street, and that was glaringly obvious at its conference this week. “To everyone who voted Reform in May: I have not stopped listening to you. You told me you felt ignored and let down. Those concerns are real, and they will be answered by delivery, not division. “Wales is a small country with enormous potential. Devolution is how that potential is realised, with decisions made closer to the people they affect. "I believe in a Wales that is confident, compassionate and ambitious. A Wales that uses the powers it has to improve people’s lives and seeks the powers it still needs. "Plaid is serious about governing, serious about delivery and serious about Wales. It is a party that believes in our communities and believes Wales can do more when decisions are made closer to the people they affect. “I know what I am asking of Plaid members who spent May campaigning against the party I stood for, and I will work to earn their trust. “I came into politics to give people a voice, improve lives and get things done, including for every child growing up in care in Wales today. Plaid Cymru is the best place for me to do that, and I am ready to get to work."

Richard Tice called them "thugs" on Saturday night.

🚨| NEW: Reform's donations scandal is cutting through with voters Have you heard about the allegations? Yes: 70% No: 25% Unsure: 5% Is this a problem? Real problem: 62% Exaggerated: 26% Unsure: 11% Does this make you more or less likely to vote Reform? More: 11% No difference: 44% Less: 41% @CityAM / Freshwater Strategy, n=1,249, 4-6 Sep, changes since 7-10 Aug

The weird thing about this is every journalist at Reform conference who spoke to people who attended the business dinner heard the same story. So when the Reform leadership make this charge, we all know it's the Reform leadership that are the liars.

Still at @Gatwick_Airport and now staff are making jokes about the "slightly delay". Not really appropriate @Ryanair

@Ryanair a last minute 13 hours delay Shannon to Gatwick. Wife is there with 2 young children. Apparently no one at information desk? Any advice at all?

Fair play @Ryanair some how manage to fucking delay a flight from Shannon to London by 12 hours! It's only 1 hr 35 min flight .. absolute fucking joke of an airline

Half an hour on and there is still no one from @Ryanair to help paying customers. There's a guy in crutches and several people with young children expected to just wait, without answers, until midnight

Essex Police deny there was a threat to any of the Clacton candidates at the count. Farage rather gave the game away about his real reason for not attending in his 3am speech to supporters. "I’m damned if I’m going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory, a ringing endorsement of all that I’ve tried to fight for, and you’ve tried to fight for, and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies." huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/n…

The Guernsey connection: on the tangled trail of Christopher Harborne’s Channel Island assets The Reform donor may be based in Thailand but he is linked to four properties and a private jet firm far closer to home ✍️ @CatNeilan and @FredHarter observer.co.uk/news/politics…

It is quite clear that the main political parties shouldn’t pander to Farage’s silly game and should not stand in the Clacton by-election, leaving the way clear for @CountBinface to defeat him

Exc: First Government department quits X over racism and violence concerns Richard Hermer sent a directive to staff last week saying the Attorney General's Office would be coming off the platform observer.co.uk/news/politics…

@CatNeilan and I have been working on this for the past few months. What started as quite a forward-looking commission turned into the story of the moment as we were making it - so now feels like a perfect time for it to be out there!

Investigation with @TheDetailTV & the Guardian this morn. We reveal how British security services were involved in formulating the Legacy Act, despite the fact the act was supposed to investigate killings carried out by the state thedetail.tv/articles/secret… & theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

Reform's Robert Kenyon said abortion was a "cowardly act of murder" and implied that people falsely claimed to have been raped “Don’t dole out the ‘what if someone is raped by their brother’ arguement... don’t want babies? Use contreception! [sic]” observer.co.uk/news/national…

🗣️ "The commission has created a giant regulatory black hole that we're now proposing to fill before it does untold damage.” Steve Goodrich with @catneilan on MPs from @taxinparliament pushing to have donations from before being elected reported. observer.co.uk/news/politics…

Without the Guardian, the public, most members of Reform, parliament (and the Daily Telegraph), would still be in the dark about the £5m gift Nigel Farage received. Now, parliament’s standards watchdog is taking a formal look. It will be really interesting to see the outcome of this process. theguardian.com/politics/202…